Who remembers these slides leaked by Snowden back in 2013, detailing how big players were working as actual "providers" for the US NSA's PRISM program. Not via warrants, but as data sharing partners.

I remember in the 4 yrs before, when @k0a1a & I were lecturing on precisely this, privacy workshops, making interventions to alert people to the risks, we'd be scowled at, sometimes even angrily. Told we were being doomer.

A shiny-eyed tech optimism that aged badly, then forgot about it all

@strypey I may be convinced otherwise once it's implemented here and the lived experience can prove the concept is sustainable within our system that continually exploits people for profit, but I think a UBI is like a band-aid. It may soften the symptoms of dispossession and precarity produced by capitalism and settler colonial structures, but it doesn't address the underlying power relations that generate those symptoms in the first place.

Even if it provides short-term relief, it leaves intact the colonial logic that land is something to be governed through extractive institutions and market rule, rather than through indigenous sovereignty, and it keeps capitalism's core demand, that people's lives be made only legible as "workers" and their needs routed only through wage and consumption.

So the REAL decolonial objection isn't that UBI is "bad" in itself, it's that it treats redistribution as a substitute for undoing colonial dispossession. If the goal is justice, then relief without structural change, without returning land, sovereignty, and community power, risks becoming another way colonial-capitalism absorbs critique, AKA a band-aid to the wound, while preserving the system that caused it.

Obviously there's much more complexity and nuance to New Zealand's migrant history and I do recognise that other places are also victims of colonial projects which have led those people to move here in search of a better life, but I can appreciate the legitimacy of such an upheaval to their lives while also recognising the cost to existing communities here.

Also important to note in this global technology race, is that the roles being created to service these new economies are very much outnumbered by the quantity of roles disappearing from across all industries. We are constantly promised freedom and abundance as long as we adopt these tools and yet inequality is worse than its ever been, so what's the timeline then? 10 more years? 25? 50?

We should revolt NOW.

@sun @anemone you're using private Radicle repos?

@spytfyre moistly, yeah

@whitequark

Huge IT company shit at securing its own infrastructure, news at 11.

@grmpyprogrammer It's a scary place to be, and it took me a year to decide to stay out of tech.

I was fortunate enough that I was able to take that time and figure things out.

The layoffs are coming hot and heavy, and they're likely to get worse. I hope you're able to navigate things comfortably.

@rysiek
Moist. Even.

Social media is in a crisis. The data is accumulating. Here is one: https://blog.incogni.com/digital-fatigue-and-burnout/

We need better forms of interacting online than what the big platforms give us. And group chat is certainly not the final answer.

Anybody working on this? Yes! And you can meet some of us at #FediForum!
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@libreoffice So.. I had a class of 15 18-21 year olds that had rwcently installed Mint and were using Writer. All 15 thought paste with formatting sucked. Thanks! We will look elsewhere. Bye.

Sigh, I will never be this cool.

@sun @anemone I'm currently running Forgejo but seeing as I have almost nothing on it, I may be tempted to switch

@ascentale @bikenite A8. Someone brought this trailer to the last kidical mass. It’s used to block off the cross streets. The structure was finished just in time. The welds were still hot.
#bikenite

@catsalad Say it ain't so, @qdot